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QUEENS PARK REPORT by Bill Hodgson Must sell towns on central planning York President Alan has announced a leadership convention to choose a succes sor to John as Prime Minister and party leader it Maple Leaf Gardens Feb 101112 Mr Eagleson said the actual leadership vote will be on the last day a Friday and the results may be known by early evening The February dates were chosen so the Legislature could begin its fourth session with a new leader before Easter There will be delegates and alternates attending the convention The allocation of delegates has been designed to get the largest number possible of rank and file party members Other delegates will be all Con servative candidates for provincial and federal ridings in the province officers of district associations officers from womens district associations officers from associa tions and delegates at large Delegates will pay a registration fee of alter nates and observers CONSUMER PROTECTION Financial and Commercial Affairs Minister Bert Lawrence says his department is drafting a plan for reci procal enforcement of consumer law by all the provinces which possibly would be established sometime next year Mr Lawrence made the announcement following the recent Interprovincial Conference on Consumer Affairs which be hosted As far as Ontario is concerned we believe that with the right kind of reciprocal enforcement machinery stop a great number said He also said that the delegates at the conference agreed that it is in the best interest of all Canadians for matters was established This committee met in Winnipeg Dec 14 and to deal with the technical aspects of imple menting the principles established by the conference The conference also discussed cutoff and disclaimer clauses in consumer contracts credit reporting hearing aids charter flights franchises pyramid selling and the movement of salesmen or firms whose licences have been cancelled from one province to another Mr Lawrence said be hopes the welcome success of the conference will lead to a second one perhaps next fall theme of the threeday annual conference formerly call ed Farmers Week to be held at the Ontario Agricultural College Jan 5 and according to Agriculture Minister national marketing boards the impact of imports on agri culture the quality of foods and the nutritional problems facing modern society as well as a review of the dairy Industry A concurrent series of discussions on rural environ ment will feature researchers pollution and pesticide experts and farmers Topics of interest include pesticide control noise pollution and what farmers should expect from government agencies and from their own rural environment GO TRANSIT BUS SERVICE Highways Minister George Gomme reports a steady growth in commuter use of GO Transit bus last September As a result officials of GO and Gray Coach are planning changes in scheduling for the eastern and northern corridors Passengers carried in the western corridor impressive but not on the level of the other two and no schedule adjustment is necessary Combined GO TransitGray Coach service from Newmarket Aurora Oak Ridges and Richmond Hill to downtown Toronto provided a per cent Increase in bus service and the number of users has risen from weekday passenger trips to a daily weekday average of more than trips during the last week of October Extra peakhour buses bad be put into service to handle passengers originating at Aurora and Richmond Hill The service connecting with trains showed an increase from weekday passengers at the start to a daily weekday average of 900 during the last week of October with extra buses added at peakhour Service between Hamilton and rail station showed an increase from 360 weekday passengers on inauguration to an average of during the last week of October HYDRO NEGOTIATES Ontario Hydro is negotiating for six months options on 1200 acres of land in Darlington Township two miles west of The options are being taken to per mit exploratory tests which will determine whether this area of the Lake Ontario shoreline is suitable for construc tion of a future power generating station Investigation of the site immediately west of the St Marys Cement Co plant and south of Highway is part of Hydros long term planning WINE CRAFT win EUROPEAN STYIE COOKED MEATS IMPORTED CHEESE BREAD BUNS TAKE OUT SERVICE ASSORTED SANDWICHES GOLDEN FRENCH PR PSYS ASSORTED SAM VINCES SPECIAL BLEND nnru for shopping Urtrl CONVENIENCE AS USUAL THROUGHOUT THE HOLIDAYS NIWMARKIT PLAZA planning program to cope with a bur geoning population but first it must sell the idea to local municipalities As a result council last week de ferred approval on a proposal to stock Yorks towns and townships with re gional planning staff until regional re- emerge council learned in a meeting last week They are the only three municipalities now employing fulltime planning staff If these municipalities decided to retain their local planners in they would still have to pay for the municipalities pay private consul tants or request help from the coun ty planning staff on planning matters What it boils down to is that were either in favor of a strong re gional government or were not said Newmarket Mayorelect Bob For nan Its up to us to sell the concept of a strong regional lo do a selling job to his Markham council if the region had already ap proved the idea moved the proposal adoption of the whole planning mittee report council reversed itself and agreed to defer the matter Planning Consultant Donald Pat whose report to council contain ed t h staff proposal conceded that the recommendation was the most controversial item in the report But he argued that strong cen tralized planning is inherent in the regional concept and suggested that areas with the highest assessment would receive the most service from such a program- So Vaug- and Richmond Hill would receive benefits commensurate with their tax output he said Population forecasts for York range from to 239000 by the report stated Yorks present popu lation is about Region sets new engineers salary Commission council engineer from within Yi able applicant isnt foul tised outside he region York Regions will receive a salary and would have earned tar had he remained as Toronto and York Roads fcw Phc fed hicken Coop Old Don Mills FOR PROMPT DELIVERY PIZZA FISH CHIPS COUNTRY FRIED CHICKEN AuroraKeswick Wed December M Grandmother wins raffle SHARON Mrs Sheldon Walker of Came ron was the proud recipi ent of a General Electric stereo unit last Saturday at the annual East bury Hockey Dance held at Sharon Community Hall The ticket for the raffle had been sold to Mrs Walker by her grandson Michael Mallory of Sharon For selling the winning tic ket her grandson will GOLF IS LIKE PERSONAL FINANCES J Hem To ft